Literature and the War on Terror

Sk Sagir Ali is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism, Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys and the monograph Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming).

• Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Surveying the Frontiers of Home, Democracy and Belonging in the Literature of War on TerrorSk Sagir Ali Part I: Cartographies of Otherness and Strategic Outsiderism in Post 9/11 fictions1) “An Extravagant and Wheeling Stranger”–Encountering the Muslim as the NeighbourShinjini Basu2) Rewriting the American Narrative of Muslim Men: Ayad Akhtar’s Depiction of Race, Gender, and MasculinityNalini Iyer3) “There is no Israel for Me”: Je Suis Charlie, the Ends of the French Republic, and the Laicistic Contours of Islamophobic Dystopia in Michel Houellebecq’s Submission. Swayamdipta Das 4) Sinhala Budhist Nationalism and Shrinking Space for Muslims in Sri Lanka: The Post Tamil Elam War and 9/11 SituationRajeesh CS5) The Making of Xenophobia: Migrating from Hatred to Grief in the Novels of Mohsin HamidDebamitra Kar6) Pax Americana! : American Exceptionalism and Salman Rushdie’s Language of State Shayeari DuttaPart II: Reconfiguring the Contours of Home, Belonging, and the Rights of Conditional Citizenship in Post 9/11 Novels7) Imagining Citizenship, Democracy and Belonging in Laila Lalami’s Hope and OtherDangerous Pursuits and Ayad Akhtar’s Homeland ElegiesSk Sagir Ali 8) Globalization, Islamic Machine, and “Critical Localism” in the Aftermath of 9/11Mosarrap Hossain Khan9) War, Terror and Migration: Hamid’s Exit West as a Cosmopolitan NovelFaisal Nazir Part III: Popular Imagination and the Ideological Representational Apparatus of Western Media and Culture in Post 9/11 Climate10) Tribute in Light: Memory (Re)PlacedPinaki De11) The Radical Sadness of Late-Night Television: The Comedy Talk Show in the Shadow of 9/11Sudipto Sanyal and Somnath Basu12) 9/11 and the Supervillain Crisis: A Study of the ‘Terrorist Villain’ and Terrorism in select MCU filmsRohan Hassan 13) Post 9/11 Digital Martyrdom – Digital Ephemera of Ireland and Digital Protest Movement of BangladeshKusumita DattaPart IV: Locating “Other” Lives and the Unmappable Registers of Precarity in 9/11 Novels14) Possible Lives, Impossible Times:The Tragic Queer Diasporic Muslim in Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla’s The ExilesAnil Pradhan15) You are My Creator, but I am Your Master” : A Reading of Frankenstein in Baghdad as a Postcolonial PharmakonAvijit Basak 16) The Trauma of Familiarity: A Very Brief Overview of British-Muslim Writings in the Post 9/11 UKPinaki RoyIndex